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Grotesque Lovesongs

A quirky comedy about a family in Indiana. Pete and John live with their
mother and father, a horticulturist. Everyone but Johnny is haunted by a traumatic past
experience. Finally, Johnny realizes that what he wants is to go to
Nashville to be a singer of sad love songs.

Grotesque Lovesongs

Cast Size

3m, 2f

Duration

Duration

120 minutes (2 hours)

Accolades

Accolades

Not Applicable

Suggested Use

Suggested Use

Cutting Approved for Competition

Monologues

Scene work

Audience

Target Audience

Adult

Additional Info

Written by the author of The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer,
and other plays, this quirky comedy about a family in Indiana enchanted
audiences at New York's WPA Theatre. Pete and John live with their
mother and father, a horticulturist. A pretty young woman named Romy is
engaged to Johnny, who has just inherited a ton of money from a family
friend, Mr. Agajanian. Pete pesters his mother about why Johnny received
the entire inheritance until she admits that Mr. Agajanian was Johnny's
father. Stunned, Johnny retreats to the greenhouse and finds Pete and
Romy making love. Everyone but Johnny is haunted by a traumatic past
experience: the mother by her affair with Agajanian; the father by the
memory of his first true love, a Terre Haute whore; Pete by his failed
marriage to a circus con artist, and Romy by her two failed marriages.
All of the characters but Johnny also know what they want: Louise and
Dan want the contentment of their marriage; Romy wants to bake bread in a
big old house, and she wants Pete, who finally admits that he wants
her, too. Finally, Johnny realizes that what he wants is to go to
Nashville to be a singer of sad love songs.

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Don Nigro is among the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in the world and has continued to build a deeply interrelated and diverse body of dramatic literature, employing a wide variety of dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He has written monologues and epics, spare realistic dramas ...